My cellmate snores, the con in the next cell says he's
waiting for me for me to "pick up the soap" (?!) and the guard keeps whispering
"Baconator" at me. I've had it! (Greene Dreher Sterling Fair in Newfoundland, Pa.)

During the traditional tomatina fight in Bunol, Spain, hundreds of combatants splatter each other with tons of tomatoes. This year, for the first time, nonresidents were charged a $13 entry fee - a small price to pay to get totally sauced.

A man spits flame during a
demonstration in Bogota in support of Colombian farmworkers demanding government
subsidies and greater access to land.

And now the entertainment portion of the protest ...

A man spits flame during a demonstration in Bogota in support of Colombian farmworkers demanding government subsidies and greater access to land.

Photo: Guillermo Legaria, AFP/Getty Images

And now the entertainment portion of the protest ... A man spits... Photo-5105151.69143 - Connecticut Post

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Why isn't mine gold?!

One of several toddlers in tiaras wails at a perceived injustice during Janmashtami festival celebrations in Gauhati, India. The kids are dressed as the Hindu god Krishna for Janmashtami, which marks his birthday.

Henry Leese drives a 1952 British Rail Ivatt number 46512 locomotive on the Strathspey Steam Railway in Aviemore, Scotland. This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Highland Main Line linking the lairds of South Scottland with the landowners of the North.

The Central Park Zoo in New York reports that its longtime polar bear, Gus, has died. The Wildlife Conservation Society said veterinarians euthanized the popular bear Tuesday because of a large, inoperable tumor. Gus lived to be 27 when the median life expectancy for male polar bears in zoos is less than 21.

Pulling a cable across a mountain of freshly harvested wheat at the Port of Lewiston,
Idaho, is the first step in covering the pile with weatherproof plastic. There's more
than a million bushels in this pile.

A Palestinian peers from inside a smuggling tunnel dug beneath the Gaza-
Egypt border in the Gaza Strip. Egyptian security forces have have been cracking down on
smuggling between Egypt and the Gaza Strip since July.

A Syrian-Kurdish refugee carries a mattress at sunset in the Quru Gusik camp about 16
miles east of Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq. More
than 50,000 Syrian refugees have crossed into Iraq's Kurdish region in less than two
weeks.